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25 Apr / The Book of Salt by Monique Truong [in AsianWeek]

A memorable debut novel (big month for debuts, no?) about the Vietnamese live-in cook for the legendary American expats Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, a young man with a complicated past in Vietnam and an uncertain future in 1930s France.

Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, April 25, 2003

Readers: Adult

Published: 2003

By Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American Tags > AsianWeek, Book of Salt, BookDragon, Civil rights, Colonialism, Coming-of-age, Family, Friendship, Haves vs. have-nots, Immigration, Love, Monique Truong, Politics

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